It's been quite a while since I've posted anything new about Lucian and his antics (there's just been so much loss recently) but I just had to share this story.  Sunday evening hubby and I decided we pick up dinner at the Cracker Barrel since we'd been outside all day doing yard work....  So we decided to take Lucian with us to get him out and in the car instead of putting him in the crate while we were gone. 

So we get to the restaurant and we get Lucian out.  Hubby is going to sit with him in the grass while I go in and order the food and wait for it.  Well, apparently Lucian didn't like the idea of me and hubby separating.  Hubby has been having problems with his hands (carpel tunnel) and his right hand (dominant) is the worst.  So of course he has Lucian's leash wrapped around that hand and as I'm walking away Lucian pulls free of hubby.  We're both frantic yelling for him and he just panics and takes off.  Hubby is running after Lucian while I while I run around the back of the building to cut him off.  There's people waiting out front and according to hubby they kind of jump back when Lucian comes running through.  Somebody was coming out the door so Lucian goes in the door.  I guess he was thinking the building would be a safe place....  Thank goodness Cracker Barrel has 2 sets of doors to go through before you're actually in the restaurant or else Lucian would have been running all over that place and scared totally out of his mind not to mention scaring the staff and customers. 

I see hubby has him so I walk back around the back of the building trying to get myself together.  I was so scared he'd get hit by a car in the parking lot or worse run out into the street.  I realized that even though Lucian can be an a--hole sometimes and torments the crap out of me...I still love him.  I would have been heartbroken if something awful happened to him and I would never have forgiven myself.

So hubby and I have decided to get Lucian out and about more so he doesn't get so worked up and panic.  So last night we loaded him up in the SUV and took him out to our Tractor Supply store.  They allow dogs to come in and we thought it wouldn't be as busy as a Lowes store.  Lucian was keyed up due to all the smells and seeing other people.  I was happy to see that he was excited to greet people and didn't show any signs of aggression (hair standing up or growling).  At home he's very vocal about letting us know he sees people or critters out in the yard and will bark and growl.  And Lucian was definitely all about the doggie treats we found.  We got him a pig ear and beef bone so he was one happy boy when he got back to the car.

Lucian is so much stronger than Leland was so we need to get him to be a little calmer when we're out and not freak out.

Here's some pictures of our boy...man he's BIG!!  And we've given up on trying to get his ears to stand.  He'll hold them up when he's chasing birds and geese out of the yard but otherwise they flop over.  Since his skin was constantly pulling open when we'd tape them up we couldn't keep putting him through that discomfort...not to mention it taking like 2 weeks to get them to heal just to post them and have it happen all over again.

Well, I'm having some technical difficulties posting pictures....  For some reason I'm not getting the hand to click on the mountain icon up top.  I'll try posting in another window but if that doesn't work...guess I'll put them up in the blog.

Sahana and her Angel Leland